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Email: bishnupriyamanipurionline@gmail.comennoreply@blogger.com (RK Rishikesh Sinha)Fri, 09 Dec 2016 06:26:20 PSTBlogger http://www.blogger.com1286125BishnupriyamanipuriOnlinehttps://feedburner.google.comSeducing the Rain God Book Reviewhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BishnupriyamanipuriOnline/~3/RL14gzaLEnw/rk-rishikesh-sinha-few-days-ago-i-read.htmlBishnupriya ManipuriBook ReviewRK Rishikesh Sinhanoreply@blogger.com (RK Rishikesh Sinha)Wed, 07 Dec 2016 00:15:23 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731667163244649653.post-8387273054737380063<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>RK Rishikesh Sinha </b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://niyogibooksindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Seducing-the-Rain-God-240x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://niyogibooksindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Seducing-the-Rain-God-240x300.jpg" /></a></div>Few days ago, I read a book ‘Seducing the Rain God’ by Smriti Kumar Sinha. I read each and every word in the book. I find the book is not merely a book consisting of fourteen stories originally written in Bishnupriya Manipuri, it is more of a product that is embedded with many information of the community to the pan-Indian readers as well as to the home audience. So, the book appears as a big bridge connecting many small bridges.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ramlal Sinha, the translator of the book, has successfully done a very painstaking job translating the stories written in Bishnupriya Manipuri. He has effectively transferred the original Bishnupriya Manipuri framework to English without diluting the beauty of the stories. However, if given an opportunity I would like to read the original ‘Bishnupriya Manipuri’ story ‘Choudhury Golapchan’. Since the story touches the core of the Bishnupriya Manipuri psyche.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are the few lines from the book:&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Monigo, your mind is still full of the Viratsabha, the Mahabharata, Arjun, Raja Lokei and the like. Have a sound sleep. You have to wake up early tomorrow morning. Aargh! They’re busy with the Mahabharata of Hastinapur while imminent and burning issues like starvation death, community cancer, bleak match-making prospects of the girls of Raja Lokei, have been pushed to the backburner.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here we can see, the character in the story struggles with two realms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is another reason liking the book. There are two stories that relates to my lineage ‘Rajkumar’. And the book begins with Golapsena Rajkumar in the story ‘Flowers without fragrance’. The story pricks a very common talk especially in my home.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here it is: Golapsena Rajkumar. Rajkumar, a prince! He himself was ignorant of where exactly his forefathers had been kings and how big their kingdom was.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The book comes as a standard book for future translators to keep maximum Bishnupriya Manipuri words while translating it into English. He has kept many words as it is: Iche, Eiga, Fita, Muktiar, Khura, Kathi, Giri, Chakchafal, Chengi, Khuttei, Pirha, Pana-Tankha, Ima, Angaluri, Inafi, Fizang, Gidei, Talaphuti, Ine etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One would observe that the information given about the Bishnupriya Manipuri language inside the front cover of the book finds expression in all the stories carried in the book.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition to it, through a story in the book ‘In search of an immortalizing herb’, the author bring forth the danger of overstretch of science in each and every societal sphere and in one’s personal lives. Take for a moment if in our lives there is no place for beliefs, stories, and myths, and we construct science as everything. Definitely, we will be doomed. The character of the story, Shankhalema, rightly says: Atoms and molecules don’t constitute a community. It is a nice book.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Buy it. It is available in Amazon India. </div></div><iframe frameborder="no" height="300" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/296633865&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BishnupriyamanipuriOnline/~4/q_zbnDwVIA0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0http://bishnupriyamanipuri.blogspot.com/2016/11/christianity-adam-and-eve-story-in.htmlBishnupriya Manipuris in target: Conversion to Christianityhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BishnupriyamanipuriOnline/~3/1sSr4EazXgw/bishnupriya-manipuris-in-target.htmlBishnupriya ManipuriHinduismNews and ViewsRK Rishikesh Sinhanoreply@blogger.com (RK Rishikesh Sinha)Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:03:38 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731667163244649653.post-6028458824248291950<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>RK Rishikesh Sinha </b><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">We as a Bishnupriya Manipuris feel proud keeping our social, cultural and religious pillars strong and intact. In the 21st century globalization period, it is surprising to find that there is continuity of our ethos since centuries despite being in the epicenter of many socio-political changes. The formation of India, East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) - on religion is one such. More than that we withstood religious conversion to Islam and Christianity in comparison to our neighbouring communities; we are Hindus. It is surprising that religious conversion is not highlighted and discussed. Take this: this is the first article in this blog raising the issue.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, in the present time, we are not safe. The Bishnupriya Manipuri society has been intruded and it is being compromised. To my knowledge and information, 40-45 Bishnupriya Manipuri individuals have converted to Christianity in India. To make the matter worse, unknowingly <a href="http://www.bmdc-pau.com/" target="_blank">BMDC-Pau website</a>&nbsp;carries the image of <a href="http://www.geocities.ws/jonathanpastor/killer-Teresa.html" target="_blank">Mother Teresa</a>, whose job was to bring people into the fold of Christianity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to multi-billion-dollar- organization <a href="https://joshuaproject.net/languages/bpy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Josuha Project</a> based in Denver, Colorado, 0.07 % of Indian Bishnupriya Manipuris have converted to Christianity (in Bangladesh it is 0.16%). It is a notorious organization converting people of other religious faith to Christianity. The evangelical organization has mapped us, the Bishnupriya Manipuries, and included it in their database. We are in their target.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the <a href="https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/20209/BG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joshua Project website</a>, our introduction has been given like this:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">The Bishnupriya (Manipuri) are a 100% Hindu community living in the northeastern corner of Bangladesh mostly in the Moulvibazar district of Sylhet division. They point to Manipur state of India as their homeland, and they still have a majority of their people in various northeastern states of India. They are mostly farmers, though their younger generations are becoming increasingly more educated and looking for other opportunities. They are very proud of their culture/religion, and are well-known in Bangladesh for their dances; their identity is very much tied to their Hindu culture/religion. Largely because of this, there is still not a single known Christian among the Bishnupriya in Bangladesh. Missionary activity among them has been and is limited because of their belief that to be Bishnupriya is to be Hindu. Outsiders trying to spread the gospel are not tolerated, and individuals may resist the gospel for fear that they will lose their place in the Bishnupriya society if they become Christians. Still, because of the Bishnupriya community's desire for development and aid, missionaries can easily gain access to the community by engaging them in the social, economic, and health sectors. Going beyond merely providing aid may prove difficult, however.</blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please read again:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">because of the Bishnupriya community's desire for development and aid, missionaries can easily gain access to the community by engaging them in the social, economic, and health sectors. Going beyond merely providing aid may prove difficult, however</blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the fundamental approach of Christian missionaries: 1. saama (the process of pacifying); 2. Daana (the process of giving money in charity); 3. Bheda (the principle of dividing); 4. Danda (the principle of punishment).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What we see around us in north-east India, in just half a century period, the whole northeast got converted into Christianity. The terrorism infested in Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura are Christian terrorism.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In India, Rajiv Malhotra writes in his path breaking book ‘<a href="http://amzn.to/2fggNzl" target="_blank">Being Different</a> – An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism’, ”the Joshua Project points its fingers at Hindus who comprise the dominant faith and are clearly targeted as competitors to overcome. When incidents of violence have occurred, it is often the Christian missionaries who cast the first stone in the form of hate speech such as ‘pagan’, ‘idol-worshipper’, ‘heathen’ etc …and offering whole villages financial incentives to convert”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What can we do? First, stop allowing Christian missionary schools/ hospitals at our villages. If our boys/ girls are attending Christian missionary schools (many schools have come up near to our villages), be cautious of their school content are they belittling our deities, symbols and dharmic traditions. Second, stop outsiders preaching gospels at our villages. Don’t give societal space to converters and those who got converted. Third, understand the modus-operandi of the Christian missionaries. Understand key difference between Hinduism and Judeo-Christian faiths. For this, read the <a href="http://amzn.to/2fggNzl" target="_blank">books authored by Rajiv Malhotra</a>. All the books published by him are first of its kind looking at the West from India’s dharmic standpoint. Before you buy all his books, watch his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk85J3pqkn1y--k2wNMbthA" target="_blank">You Tube Channel</a>. Fourth, we poeple have to decolonize ourselves. 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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BishnupriyamanipuriOnline/~4/1sSr4EazXgw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0http://bishnupriyamanipuri.blogspot.com/2016/11/bishnupriya-manipuris-in-target.htmlScrapping of BMDC signals the end of identity politicshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BishnupriyamanipuriOnline/~3/HwDezXS-J8w/by-rk-rishikesh-sinha-bishnupriya.htmlBishnupriya ManipuriBMDCNews and ViewsRK Rishikesh Sinhanoreply@blogger.com (RK Rishikesh Sinha)Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:00:03 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731667163244649653.post-8205891749352739995<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>By RK Rishikesh Sinha </b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sericulturecouncil.com/newdesign/matrix_panel/upload/media/assam_1477382099_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://sericulturecouncil.com/newdesign/matrix_panel/upload/media/assam_1477382099_0.jpg" height="283" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bishnupriya Manipuri Development Council (BMDC) is dead and is a part of history now. We are fortunate that we have seen the complete life cycle – its birth and its sudden death. However, the short tenure of the body has highlighted how we as a community respond to such development.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, when we go back and read some of the writings on <a href="http://bishnupriyamanipuri.blogspot.in/search/label/BMDC" target="_blank">BMDC</a>, we find serious questions were asked about the inception of the body. Here is an article, where Ramlal Sinha had doubts about the body’s financial viability and its objective. And at the same time, the role of NBMM against BMDC was questioned.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In parallel to Ramlal Sinha’s views, Rebati Mohan Sinha who was elated with the formation of the body, he too asked many questions to the very existence of the body. Reading his series of articles on <a href="http://bishnupriyamanipuri.blogspot.in/search/label/BMDC" target="_blank">BMDC</a>, today, I believe, many of his questions have gone unanswered!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Out of many things that we have seen, it is suffice to say that we can be played upon by anybody, and in this process we can go a long way. Everything takes a backseat when it comes to power and money. The series of news items prove it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If the BJP government’s decision of scrapping all the minority councils in Assam is concerned; I guess the party has sent a signal and made the point straight that minority politics, identity politics, and caste politics that are deep-rooted in the construct of India will not be entertained. Political games that are played on the name of development across jatis not only create vote banks, but it creates bitterness and hatred amongst jatis. And north-east is rife with fear and mistrust between different ethnic communities. And the party will do another surgical operation by scrapping / diluting all the minority (religious / linguistic) appeasement schemes that takes place in the name of development. Synthetic ‘Development’ would be replaced by ‘Empowerment’ of the minorities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />We see many reservations pronounced by writers like Ramlal Sinha and Rebati Mohan Sinha on BMDC has indeed come true. And the change of guard in Assam and in the Centre has indeed changed the political playground.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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Though many people like me are enjoying the chaotic environment that got fall out with the decision.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I observed since the day of announcement, the daily bazaar near to us went absolutely vacant with no buyers; and even some of the shops got closed. Still co-passengers in buses and in e-rickshaws are in conversation on the very topic. I saw people are concerned but there is absolute peace in this cacophonic environment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is so particular about the inner calmness presided by our people at this juncture when there is no cash in their hands? The inner attributed to the dharmic cultures which tend to be more accepting of difference, unpredictability and uncertainty. My opinion is shaped by Rajiv Malhotra’s book “<a href="http://amzn.to/2gC82A1" target="_blank">Being Different</a>” which I am currently reading. This voluminous book of 474 pages says that the traditional Dharmic perspective of chaos as natural and normal. Highlighting the fundamental assumptions of western civiliasation regarding Indian dharmic cultures, the book says the West, conversely, sees chaos as a profound threat that needs to be eradicated either by destruction or by complete assimilation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The West tends to crave assurances and certainty, partly because it insists on either/ polarities. The dharma traditions, however, do not see uncertainty as evil or even inherently negative. Therefore, those who are in long and tiresome queue in banks and ATMs are ready to take the pain for the better Bharat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The differing attitudes towards ‘order and chaos’ are traced very clearly in the contrasting myths and foundational stories of India and the West. In the Vedas and Upanishads, and in the vast canon of classical writings in Sanskrit, we see many context-sensitive and flexible ways of dealing with chaos and difference. There is always for balance and equilibrium with the rights of chaos acknowledgement. In contrast, Western mythologies, both Hebraic and Greek, are replete with themes that depict the negative realms as chaotic and in perpetual struggle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Malhotra writes many differences about how a Hindu and a westerner from Judeo-Christian faith encounter ‘chaos’, ‘aesthetics’, ‘morality’ and ‘truth’. Unfortunately, we as Hindus are ignorant to the fact that we are raising ourselves knowingly and unknowingly in the western framework and not paying heed to our dharmic traditional infrastructure. In today’s India, aesthetics is defined by the West, and even morality and ethics is under their garb.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rajiv Malhotra writes, the West gazes on India is through the lens of both biblical and secular thinkers. The white culture view the Indian society as dangerous, possibly evil, and ripe for America’s supposedly civilizing and progressive influence. These two blocks – the liberal/ secular (with their concepts in Anthropology/ History/ Human Rights/ Gender Studies/ Marxism/ Freudianism/ Postmodernism) and conservative/ biblical (with monotheism/ masculinity/ canons/ order/ organized/ religion) – approaches India as yet another chaotic place that needs to be ordered. With these two prisms of West India is synonymous with religious violence, human rights abuses, millions of gods, evil practices, frozen in time, caste etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like the recent West interest on Kumbh Mela which is dangerous for us, at the present moment the western media/ academia might be taking note of the Indians who are demonstrating astounding peace and self-organisation despite chaos all around. </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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The festival also symbolizes a time for spiritual renewal by lighting a lamp within our own hearts for spiritual enlightenment and by welcoming the Lord into our lives. The festival is often celebrated with elaborate firework displays, lighting Diwali lamps and feasting.In another era, this was also the day when Lord Krishna performed His Damodara childhood pastime of breaking the pots of yogurt and letting Himself be bound by Mother Yashoda. Devotees remember these pastimes during this auspicious month known as Karttika.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Diwali ceremony can be observed by illuminating 100's of candles, and offering special Prasad to the Deity. means the same thing—Dipa&nbsp;means candles, and&nbsp;bali&nbsp;means numerous. When numerous candles are lighted it is called Dipabali. In India, this Dipabali function is celebrated in a special auspicious occasion. Also it becomes more auspicious because it falls in karttik month, the holiest month of the year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Let us know about the glories of Kartika month and how to observe it. During the month of Damodara, or Kārttika (October/November), rewards for service to Krishna are greater than at any other time of year. For instance, Krishna always likes&nbsp;<a href="http://www.krishna.com/info/tulasi"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">tulasi</span></a>&nbsp;leaves, so it's always a good time to offer&nbsp;tulasi&nbsp;leaves to Krishna. Kārttika could be thought of as the ultimate "buy one, get a-whole-lot-more free" sale, or the equivalent of a "super, multi-triple word score" for those familiar with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the game of Scrabble</span></a>. It was during Kārttika that Krishna allowed Himself to be bound with ropes by His mother, Yasoda. Out of loving anger at her transcendentally naughty Child, she tied him —dama— around the abdomen—udara—with ropes. Thus the month of Kārttika is also known as the month of Damodara, "He Who was bound around the abdomen".</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">During the month of Karttika, devotees of Lord Krishna are advised to increase their concentration on His worship by dedicating their daily devotional hearing and chanting to Srimati Radharani, His eternal consort. . . anyone can apply this principle anywhere by doing harinamkirtan- hare krsna hare krsnakrsnakrsna hare hare, hare rama hare ramaramarama hare hare, which addresses both Radha and Krishna: 'O energy of the Lord (Radha), O Lord (Krishna), please engage me in your service.’&nbsp; In kartik month the following are recommended to follow:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN">i)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">Daily offer a ghee lamp to Krishna and sing the Damodarastakam (very beautiful prayer by Satyavrata muni mentioned in Padma Puran), meditating on meaning</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN">ii)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">Daily offer lamp to Tulsidevi and pray for eternal residence in Vrndavana and eternal service of the lotus feet of Radha and Krishna. Do 4 parikrama (circumbulation) of Tulasi.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN">iii)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">Performing harinamkirtan at ones home</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN">iv)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN">Hear SrimadBhagavatam, daily in association of exalted Vaisnavas, if possible.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Following are excerpts from some scriptures (Puranas) describing the glory of the pious Kartik month:</div><span lang="EN-IN"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></div><span lang="EN-IN"><div style="text-align: justify;">“If somebody performs even a little worship of Lord Shri Hari in this month, He offers that devotee His own abode.”</div></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“A person who happily reads the Bhagavad Gita in the month of Kartik does not return to the world of birth and death.”</div><span lang="EN-IN"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></div><span lang="EN-IN"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Of all gifts, the gift of a lamp during the month of Kartik is the best. No gift is its equal.”</div></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Damodarastakam : Must sing during Kartik month</div><span lang="EN-IN"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN"><br /></span></div><span lang="EN-IN"><div style="text-align: justify;">(1) namāmīśvaraḿ sac-cid-ānanda-rūpaḿ , lasat-kuṇḍalaḿgokulebhrājamanam</div><div style="text-align: justify;">yaśodā-bhiyolūkhalāddhāvamānaḿ, parāmṛṣṭamatyantatodrutyagopyā</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(2) rudantaḿmuhurnetra-yugmaḿmṛjantam, karāmbhoja-yugmenasātańka-netram</div><div style="text-align: justify;">muhuḥśvāsa-kampa-trirekhāńka-kaṇṭha-, sthita-graivaḿdāmodaraḿ bhakti-baddham</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(3) itīdṛksva-līlābhirānanda-kuṇḍe, sva-ghoṣaḿnimajjantamākhyāpayantam</div><div style="text-align: justify;">tadīyeṣita-jñeṣubhaktairjitatvaḿ , punaḥprematastaḿśatāvṛttivande</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(4) varaḿ deva mokṣaḿnamokṣāvadhiḿvā , nacanyaḿvṛṇe ‘haḿvareṣādapīha</div><div style="text-align: justify;">idaḿtevapurnāthagopāla-bālaḿ , sadā me manasyāvirāstāḿkimanyaiḥ</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(5) idaḿtemukhāmbhojamatyanta-nīlair , vṛtaḿkuntalaiḥsnigdha-raktaiś ca gopyā</div><div style="text-align: justify;">muhuścumbitaḿbimba-raktādharaḿ me , manasyāvirāstāmalaḿlakṣa-lābhaiḥ</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(6) namo deva dāmodarānantaviṣṇo , prasīdaprabhoduḥkha-jālābdhi-magnam</div><div style="text-align: justify;">kṛpā-dṛṣṭi-vṛṣṭyāti-dīnaḿbatānu , gṛhāṇeṣamāmajñamedhyakṣi-dṛśyaḥ</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(7) kuverātmajaubaddha-mūrtyaivayadvat , tvayāmocitau bhakti-bhājaukṛtau ca</div><div style="text-align: justify;">tathāprema-bhaktiḿsvakāḿ me prayaccha , namokṣegraho me ‘stidāmodareha</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(8) namaste ‘studāmnesphurad-dīpti-dhāmne, tvadīyodarāyāthaviśvasyadhāmne</div><div style="text-align: justify;">namorādhikāyaitvadīya-priyāyai , namo ‘nanta-līlāyadevāyatubhyam</div></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">TRANSLATION</span></div><span lang="EN-IN"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 15.6933px;"><br /></span></span></div><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">1) To the Supreme Lord, whose form is the embodiment of eternal existence, knowledge, and bliss, whose shark-shaped earrings ar</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">e swinging to and fro, who is beautifully shining in the divine realm of Gokula, who I (due to the offense of breaking the pot of yogurt that His mother was churning into butter and then stealing the butter that was kept hanging from a swing) is quickly running from the wooden grinding mortar in fear of mother Yasoda, but who has been caught from behind by her who ran after Him with greater speed--to that Supreme Lord, Sri Damodara, I offer my humble obeisances.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">2) (Seeing the whipping stick in His mother's hand) He is crying and rubbing His eyes again and again with His two lotus hands. His eyes are filled with fear, and the necklace of pearls around His neck, which is marked with three lines like a conch shell, is shaking because of His quick breathing due to crying. To this Supreme Lord, Sri Damodara, whose belly is bound not with ropes but with His mother's pure love, I offer my humble obeisances.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">3) By such childhood pastimes as this He is drowning the inhabitants of Gokula in pools of ecstasy, and is revealing to those devotees who are absorbed in knowledge of His supreme majesty and opulence that He is only conquered by devotees whose pure love is imbues with intimacy and is free from all conceptions of awe and reverence. With great love I again offer my obeisances to Lord Damodara hundreds and hundreds of times.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">4) O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of benedictions, I do not pray to You for the boon of impersonal liberation, nor the highest liberation of eternal life in Vaikuntha, nor any other boon (which may be obtained by executing the nine processes of bhakti). O Lord, I simply wish that this form of Yours as Bala Gopala in Vrndavana may ever be manifest in my heart, for what is the use to me of any other boon besides this?</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">5) O Lord, Your lotus face, which is encircled by locks of soft black hair tinged with red, is kissed again and again by mother Yasoda, and Your lips are reddish like the bimba fruit. May this beautiful vision of Your lotus face be ever manifest in my heart. Thousands and thousands of other benedictions are of no use to me.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">6) O Supreme Godhead, I offer my obeisances unto You. O Damodara! O Ananta! O Vishnu! O master! O my Lord, be pleased upon me. By showering Your glance of mercy upon me, deliver this poor ignorant fool who is immersed in an ocean of worldly sorrows, and become visible to my eyes.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">7) O Lord Damodara, just as the two sons of Kuvera--Manigriva and Nalakuvara--were delivered from the curse of Narada and made into great devotees by You in Your form as a baby tied with rope to a wooden grinding mortar, in the same way, please give to me Your own prema-bhakti. I only long for this and have no desire for any kind of liberation.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">8) O Lord Damodara, I first of all offer my obeisances to the brilliantly effulgent rope which binds Your belly. I then offer my obeisances to Your belly, which is the abode of the entire universe. I humbly bow down to Your most beloved SrimatiRadharani, and I offer all obeisances to You, the Supreme Lord, who displays unlimited pastimes.</span></div></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BishnupriyamanipuriOnline/~4/JM2QHi87ISE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0http://bishnupriyamanipuri.blogspot.com/2016/10/festival-diwali.htmlManipur And Pakistan: A Comparisonhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BishnupriyamanipuriOnline/~3/YJc4xrUbiM4/manipur-and-pakistan-comparison_15.htmlNews and ViewsRK Rishikesh Sinhanoreply@blogger.com (RK Rishikesh Sinha)Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:27:14 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731667163244649653.post-439083470122359729<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tho3kjEOmo4/V9mg01zX5bI/AAAAAAAAL_s/quBss5cg1sMvoAznuDz_EFaw4JHJxu_ggCLcB/s1600/narendra_modi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tho3kjEOmo4/V9mg01zX5bI/AAAAAAAAL_s/quBss5cg1sMvoAznuDz_EFaw4JHJxu_ggCLcB/s400/narendra_modi.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />When PM Modi mentioned Gilgit-Baltistan and Balochistan from the Red Fort of Delhi on 15 August 2016; I was amused since I knew Pakistani media and intelligentsia would go berserk. Indeed they were.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A thought strike my mind to enquire about the state Manipur. Frankly speaking Manipur is not of any interest to me. Like any other Indian, Manipur reminds me for all wrong reasons!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A quick cursory analysis between Pakistan and Manipur, I find that they are not only similar but exactly the same. As an Indian Bishnupriya Manipuri, the histories of both Pakistan and Manipur started rolling in front of my eyes. Like anyone, I can relate very well with both the blocks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To my understanding and knowledge I see Manipur would suffer a lot in the coming decades, and the Meitei Hindu community would be at receiving end.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let’s begin the comparison taking few of the factors.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Dominant Community</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What Punjabis muslims are for Pakistan, Meitei community is for Manipur. Pakistani Punjabis are dominant community in Pakistan. They hold the Army, institutionalized infrastructures, and they are part and parcel of Pakistani discourse. What we hear about Pakistan, it is actually from the Pakistani Punjabis. And the same thing is about Manipur, what we listen about the state, it is actually from the dominant, powerful, resourceful Meitei community. There is no doubt that the key of power is with them. The brilliance of this dominant community factor in both Pakistan and Manipur is that, the other communities are not in good terms. They hate the dominant community.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Pakistan, the Sindhi, the Pashto, the Baluchi and other lesser-known communities hate the Punjabis for making Pakistan what it is today (they are demanding nation of their own). Same could be said about 30-odd hill tribes in Manipur. The Kuki, Nagas , Zomi and other hill tribes are asserting their demands effectively. The century-old relationship is falling apart. There is trust deficit. And here, we the lesser known community Bishnupriya Manipuri were sidelined long back by the unalloyed race of ‘Manipuri’. Here they have distanced us politically, socially, emotionally, psychologically and at every front that we both would have created the grand narrative of ‘Manipuri’. &nbsp;</div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Land</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">Here comes another bone of contention, the land. With this land parameter, Manipur is congruent to Pakistan. The state of affair between the two geographies completely matches. The land sentiments in Balochistan is very deep, it is Pakistan’s largest province by area (44 %). The Balochi people don’t want their land be available to Pakistanis. A case in point, they are resisting CPEC. One can very well associate with their sentiments. Please recall, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned about Balochistan in his speech on 15 August 2016. I support the independence of Balochistan from Pakistan. The Balochi people don’t have a narrative (read say) of their own in Pakistan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Coming to Manipur, what we see, the same land sentiments: plains versus hills.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Religion</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">The role of religion is important to consider between these two land mass.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many exciting stories that we all know about the emergence of Pakistan as a country. Here is one of the strands of thought that is very different and not run-of-the-mill theories. And it came from none other than Senior Justice Javed Iqbal of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He said, ‘Hindus made Pakistan. We didn’t make it, we were incapable of doing it ’!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Still Pakistanis are struggling with the ‘idea of Pakistan’. Note it, Pakistan was the first country in the history of mankind formed on the basis of religion. The relationship between Islam and Pakistan is still that the Pakistanis have failed to come to terms yet. The ‘idea of Manipur’ will open a Pandora’s box!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What we see in Manipur, according to 2011 census, the population following Hinduism and Christianity are equal (almost). To give a blind eye towards the desert-based Christianity would be futile and dangerous. Christianity and Islam originated in desert and came to India, whereas Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism originated in the jungles of India. (I will discuss some other time the core difference between the jungle-based religion and desert-based religion. Please don’t say all religions are same. They are different with mutual respect.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If one compare, in the race of population, the population following Christianity would supersedes those following Hinduism, the Meitei, in a decade or so. This will bring enormous change in the state Manipur that we see today. The situation would be similar to what Christianity brought to South Korea in the recent times! Lately, it has started showing. Korean entertainment has got a space in the state.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I don’t want to proceed further taking religion as a parameter in Manipur. The state is sitting on a silent bomb.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I would say, what is Islam for Pakistan, Christianity is for Manipur (one could observe this in the near future).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Terrorism</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">The terrorism business in both Pakistan and Manipur is open to everyone. The whole environment is perfect for terrorism Start-Up. It is a cottage industry.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, here I stop, there are many, I really mean many similarities between Pakistan and Manipur. I see the Manipur picture gloomy and sad.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Conclusion</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">An idea can change. And a wrong idea can bring devastation. And this is what happened to Pakistan. I feel sorry for those so-called Meitei intellectuals when I read them, they have more ‘intellect’. They sound similar to so-called Pakistani intelligentsia/ thought leaders. They know many stuff, but understand too little. The million dollar question is: what is the idea that would bring peace and prosperity in Manipur. Guess!&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(I have a different take on Pakistan.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A quick Google, I find nobody has opted this angle that the article tries to dissect Manipur’s similarity with Pakistan. </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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They were arriving within five minutes.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After five minutes…</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, the pods have finally arrived. I got into the SF6 pod. It was to leave ten minutes later. To kill time, I started playing <i>League of Stars</i> on my virtual gaming iconsole.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After ten minutes…</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An announcement was made that the pods were leaving in ten seconds. I put my gaming iconsole inside my suitpad. Soon, I was experiencing near to zero gravity as the pods started travelling. Since it would take 35 minutes to reach San Francisco, I decided to take a nap.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After 35 minutes…</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I woke up and yawned and realised that I was in San Francisco. The other passengers had disembarked. I quickly took my suitpad and got out. I booked a taxi pod and set off for the Universal Institute of Technology and Space Research (UITSR). I showed my I-card at the entrance of the towering institute and went in. I had been called by the Managing Director of the institute. I just didn’t know why he had called me. He told me it was something important. So, I went into his cabin. He greeted and asked me to sit down. He questioned me, “Do you know why I have called you here?” “No, Sir,” I replied promptly. He continued, “Let me tell you all about it. We’ve been working on a model of the warp drive, a faster-than-light (FTL) spacecraft propulsion system, supposed to be a means of travelling to outer space at fantasy speeds greater than that of light by many orders of magnitude. We’ve not publicised our experiment so that the reputation of this institute doesn’t go down if this mega-experiment fails. At present, our team of engineers have successfully completed the making of the spacecraft but they have not been able to figure out how to make the warp bubble, which would be the basis of its travel. I know that you are more than capable of helping our engineers with this. So, what do you say?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was speechless. I had never thought that the warp drive experiment would be carried out so early in the 22nd century. Achieving the goal of successfully making this warp drive would be a dream come true. As I was thinking of the warp drive, the MD interrupted, “What are you thinking, Mr. RS? Accept the proposal.” I thought for a moment, then replied with some hesitation, “Okay. But I can’t assure that the experiment would be a success.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It’s alright. At least you can help us.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Yes.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Let me take you to the 51st floor, where our engineers are presently working on the model,” said the MD. We entered the huge cubicle where the experiment was being carried out. The MD addressed the team of engineers, “Let me introduce all of you to Mr. RS, the engineering director of the Los Angeles Institute of Technology (LAIT). He’s going to help you with your work.” Then he addressed me, “Mr. RS, this is my team of engineers. This is Ronny, Michael, Thiago, David, Jamie, Ryan, Pierre, John, Charles, and he’s Chris.” “Hello, everyone!” I greeted them.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Hi!” they greeted me in chorus. “Ryan is the leader of the team,” the MD said. I shook hands with Ryan. The MD spoke once again, “So, Mr. RS, you can start your work from tomorrow? There is an empty room in this floor. You can stay there, free of cost.” “Thank you so much, Sir,” I replied. He showed me to the room, then left. I went inside the room, locked the door and was shocked to see that the digi-clock had struck 22:00. I didn’t realise that so much time had passed. I quickly kept my suitpad on the table, had a bath, changed my clothes, had dinner and went to sleep.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Next morning… I woke up and yawned and realised that the digi-clock had struck 08:30. I had to start my work at 9:00. My automated-brushing-device brushed my teeth. I hurriedly took a bath and had my breakfast. The digi-clock had struck 09:10. It was already late. I quickly took my r-pad (research-pad) and shot off to the research cubicle. The team was waiting for my arrival. I addressed them as I entered the cubicle, “I’m sorry for being late!”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It’s okay,” replied Ryan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I started my research on my r-pad. Ryan spoke to me, “Sir, we’ve not been able to create the warp bubble which is our topmost challenge. Without it, this spacecraft would be of no use.” “I know, Ryan. Your MD told me. I’m thinking about this only.” As we got busy with our work, the alarm bell started ringing with a voice announcing, “Warning! Warning! Three unidentified creatures have suddenly appeared at the 51st floor of the building! Please be careful.” This warning halted our experiment. “Are they aliens?” I asked Ryan. “I don’t know,” he replied. Then he addressed all of us, “Guys, let’s move on to the safety compartment. Sir, come along with us.” He led us. We all followed. As we stepped out of the research cubicle, we were astonished to see three extraterrestrials hovering in front of us. Their facial expressions showed that they were terrified after seeing the eleven of us. They said something among themselves, which none of us understood. At that moment, five robocops came to attack them. Ryan stopped them from shooting the aliens. Then he tried to communicate with the ETs. But language was the biggest barrier between them and us. Then, one of the ETs took out something (a gadget?) from his glowing pouch, pressed a button on that gadget and we were taken aback as he started speaking in English, “Please don’t attack us. We have come from planet Z3 of the Alpha-ray Galaxy… I am Mazzid, he’s Pozzid, and he’s Lazzid… We received ultraradio signals from your institute and we observed on our crystal i-ball that you all are trying to build a warp drive but not being able to create the warp bubble.” There was a pause. Then he asked his fellow companions to switch on the language changing buttons (as I called it) of their respective gadgets. They did so. Then, he spoke to us, “I think we can help you with your experiment. We have carried out a similar experiment on our planet but we don’t call it a warp drive. Instead, we have termed it as Dizwazz, which is quite parallel to a warp drive. So, will you take us in your team?” Ryan replied, “We’ll ask the MD. If he agrees, only then we will take you in our team.” We all proceeded to the MD’s cabin along with the ETs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The MD was flabbergasted on seeing the ETs and he fainted. Ryan sprinkled some water on his face and he came back to consciousness. He asked Ryan timidly, “Who are these… three creatures?” “They are aliens, Sir.” “What? But how did they come here?” “Sir, they belong to Planet Z3. They received ultra-radio signals from our institute and observed on their crystal i-ball that we are trying to build a warp drive but are not being able to create the warp bubble. So, they’ve come here to help us with our experiment. Please grant me permission to include them in our team,” Ryan pleaded. Then the MD asked me, “What do you say, Mr. RS?” “I have no problem. The decision is all yours,” I replied. The MD thought for a while. Then he spoke, “Well, Ryan, if you think that they’re trustworthy and can really help your team, then I have no problem in granting you permission.” Ryan thanked the MD. Then he spoke to the ETs, “So, my friends, you are the new members of our research team.” “Thank you, Ryan and MD,” the ETs said in chorus. The MD nervously replied, “Yes, yes, it’s my pleasure.” We all chuckled at his reply. Then we moved towards the research cubicle to continue with our work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We introduced ourselves to the aliens. Then the aliens began their work. In the meantime, I obtained some information from my r-pad about negative energy, very useful to warp space, as it provides the anti-gravity force to push the spacecraft around. I showed this information to the ETs. Mazzid said to me, “Thank you, RS. You reminded me of negative energy. I had totally forgotten about it. Give me this information. I’ll check it out.” He took the r-pad from me, thought for a while, then exclaimed, “Yes! Friends, I’ve found out the secret of the warp bubble.” “What? But how? We’ve pored over so much information. Even then we were not able to get any idea,” Ryan spoke with surprise. Mazzid said, “Calm down, Ryan. Let me explain it to you. Actually, your planet does not have a particular kind of negative energy, without which you can make an ordinary bubble, but a warp bubble needs that kind of negative energy not only to maintain the balance of the spacecraft inside it, but also to help the spacecraft remain virtually stationary in its own little patch of space time inside the warp bubble. This negative energy is important for another very important reason, as it would make space-time expand strongly behind the spacecraft, while ordinary energy would create a powerfully contracting area of space in front of the spacecraft, thus, enabling the warp drive to travel faster than the speed of light.” Ryan responded to Mazzid’s explanation, “Okay, I understand. So now, what do we do?” Mazzid replied, “Pozzid and I will bring the required negative energy from Z3. Lazzid will stay here.” Saying this, the two ETs disappeared. We were stunned at their sudden disappearance. I asked Lazzid, “How do you disappear and reappear?” He replied, “Through teleportation.”&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Teleportation? The name sounds familiar,” I said. Ryan burst out, “Quantum teleportation, the theory provided by Einstein and Bohr. Isn’t it, Lazzid?” Lazzid said, “Yes, something like that.” “My goodness! So you have developed teleportation too, thought as impossible by humans,” I exclaimed. At that moment, Mazzid and Pozzid reappeared with air-tight containers full of negative energy. They handed these containers to Ryan, and Mazzid explained to all of us how to use them to create the warp bubble and complete the warp drive. Then he addressed us, “Friends, we had a nice time with you all. Our near and dear ones are waiting for us. We have to leave now.” Ryan then said, “But friends, we don’t know where exactly your planet is located. Please tell us, so that we humans may visit you someday and help you if needed.” Mazzid spoke to Ryan, showing a card, “This is a digi-card. It may look small but it contains all the information about our planet and about us. Keep this card with you.” He handed over the card to Ryan. Then all of them bade us adieu and disappeared.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I noticed the time on my smartwatch. It was already 7:00 p.m. I didn’t even realise that so much time had passed by. But we still had five hours in which to complete our experiment, as the research cubicle closed only at midnight. I told Ryan to continue with the work. We all got engaged in our work, concentrating more than ever before.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At 10:00 p.m., we heaved a sigh of relief as the gigantic warp bubble was finally fabricated. Ryan pressed a button on the research-cubicle-mega-screen (rcm screen) which prompted a robot to place the huge spacecraft inside the bubble. Jamie, the youngest member of the team immediately called the MD to have a look at the warp drive. The MD was amazed as he saw the mighty warp drive lying on a platform in front of his eyes. He congratulated our team and didn’t forget to ask about the ETs. Ryan told him that the ETs had left. After that, we all left for our respective rooms and eagerly waited for the next day to arrive – so that we could test the warp drive. I couldn’t sleep properly out of excitement.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Next morning…</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I woke up early and proceeded to the research cubicle. The MD and all the others were waiting for me. Ryan initiated the transfer process of the warp drive to the Launchpad by pressing a button on the rcm screen, after which two enormous flying robots transferred the warp drive to the institute’s rocket Launchpad. We were to send the warp drive with two humanoid robots for a short journey to Mars. The humanoid robots pressed the launch button on the warp drive’s dashboard and the warp drive was not to be seen. It had shot off so fast that it was not possible for us to see it directly, though we were tracking it on a computer. To our amazement, the warp drive successfully landed on Mars in a mere 150 seconds. We had found out through our calculation that even light rays took 182 seconds to reach Mars from the Earth. The MD pumped his fist in excitement. Tears rolled down Ryan’s eyes as he saw his hard work yield success. The other nine members of our team did a few dance steps. I felt happy, too, as I had the privilege of making a small contribution towards this incredible experiment. This splendid experiment, thus, started a new era of space travel and human communication with the extra-terrestrials.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(ritwicksinha01@gmail.com)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This FICTION was published in The Assam Tribune, Sunday Reading Supplement on 31st July, 2016 and 7th August, 2016.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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It’s been 5-6 months back, while conversing with one of our community member who didn’t know me, he asserted that we as a Bishnupriya Manipuri community “are not….., but we are…..”. I am not revealing since to my knowledge and understanding, even the idea to be given space in writing is amounting to prove that his thought do exist.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was excited to the new revelation and was aghast at the same time. I naively asked him, who told this to you about our identity. He immediately called the person who had told him and in front of me he had a conversation with him about our identity. He said the other person have some new proof for his claim.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I pondered if we have such people at least 1000 in our community to have this thought it is enough to disturb the whole community. Here my interest in the study of <a href="http://bishnupriyamanipuri.blogspot.in/2016/02/11-lessons-to-be-learned-from-pakistan.html" target="_blank">Pakistan</a> supported me to understand the psychology behind the thought process of that person. Pakistanis have conspiracy theories for every event! For a moment with my ‘Pakistan’ state of mind, I started in this line of thinking.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To my new acquaintance, it was very easy on my part to make him understand stuff about his surroundings and about his identity. I don’t know whether he understood it or not, but I made him sure that his line of thought will not lead anywhere since it is fundamentally wrong.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, here I am. Supposedly if an external agent tries to destroy the community. Here are the few subversion steps that the agent would do. These are the symptoms that we must know and understand. The phases or steps include:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">1. Demoralisation:</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The demoralization of the community process takes 15-20 years or more time to show results. This is the period one gets <i>educated</i>. In this period, new bizarre ideologies and public opinions are created that are not rooted to the land. Observe your surroundings and even yourself, you will find many thoughts from the field of social science, history, sociology and other disciplines that are not in conformity to our ethos but we have started believing upon it. With little bit of introspection, you yourselves will find the truth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At this phase, every sphere of one’s life is distorted or tempered---religion, beliefs, education system, social life, cultural ethos, administration, and labour-employee relationship.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">People get demoralized with the emergence of new sects, cults, belief system, education that latently assert – superiority/inferiority, social life gets poisoned with deficit of trust, love, care, and respect.&nbsp; </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So where we stand as a community; we will find despite being a Hindu community, we are misled from the path of our Dharma. And our Dharma is entirely rooted in spiritualism, values and righteousness. We are part and parcel of the Sanatana Dharma. Our core Dharmic system is being replaced by western thoughts/ philosophy/ culture etc. Except technology, the West doesn’t have anything to give us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am surprised to discover that the foremost unit of the society, the family and even the simple and noble relationships like saas-bahu, nanand-bhabhi, sister-in-laws have been maligned and given a distrustful aspect! As if God has created all these differences. Furthermore, marriage has been turned to mutual benefit scheme based on the principle of utility. Scratch a bit, you will find that these strained relationships are the outcomes of materialistic thought process that are not rooted to our land and culture. They are exported by external agents.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At this stage, if some unknown and camouflaged foreign organization is created with some vested interest that are not under the control of the community people and create a power structure replacing our traditional organizations or parallel to it. The situation would be dangerous. These foreign-sponsored organizations may ostensibly have candy and flossy motto / objective on anything that might blind us in the name of Progress and Development, Economic Upliftment, Education etc. Imagine opposite to Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha, there is another foreign-funded institution not being controlled by us! In the same breathe, suppose a foreign funded media outlet focusing on the community, showcasing in the garb of mouthpiece of the Bishnupriya Manipuri voice, is established! The whole environment would be vicious.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The most interesting part of this stage is that there is <b>no punishment. It is not considered CRIME</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">2. Destabilisation</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here enters the second stage with people getting far away from the core thread that binds a community. Till then we must not get astounded seeing organizations like Bishnupriya Manipuri Women Human Rights, and other bodies like Bishnupriya Manipuri Conflict Arbitration. Since we have not entered to this phase yet, we can say now, the lens of gender is different for us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The funniest part is that I have seen ‘conflict arbitration NGOs’ in Delhi. I was amused to find that the jurisdiction of the NGO is on every conceivable human relationship. The NGO is located in an area where there has not been any migration. A closely knit community living for centuries, today for simple arguments between neighbours, the parties had to take refuge to an NGO, even for father/mother-son/daughters skirmishes. I will say the community (or a part of it) is in ICU! God forbids, this must not happen to our community.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At this stage of destablisation, the parties involved are not able to come to terms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">3.Crisis</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One can imagine at this stage we will cease to exist as Bishnupriya Manipuris. We have forgotten our Dharma, we are unaware of our personal and social value system; the family system has been poisoned and degraded. To aggravate the situation external agents have blinded us further and we are destroyed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><h2>Conclusion</h2>A Russian scientist once said the reason behind the disappearance of many ancient great civilizations like Harappa, Mohen-jo-daro, Incas, Maya, Egyptian happened when the people of these societies left their religion, and the distinctiveness of their identity. Therefore we have to be rooted in the reality, without being swayed by western intellect and knowledge. We must follow our dharma.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An inclination towards Dharma would definitely be a step in this direction. You do your dharma, let me do my dharma. The question is not ‘How to’ but it is: ‘what is’ my dharma.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If we follow our dharma, we don’t have to pour our lungs out to save Bishnupirya Manipuris. </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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It was presented in the assembly on March 23 following a Tripura High Court order.</span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;">The commission was formed in 1998 to probe the assassination of Bimal Sinha and his brother by the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura on March 31, 1998, at Kamalpur in northern Tripura.</span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;">The ongoing session of the assembly on Monday witnessed bedlam over the assassination.</span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;">Commenting on the report, opposition leader Sudip Roy Barman said: "To hush up the real truth, the Left Front government has not cooperated with the inquiry commission. The state government, headed by Chief Minister Sarkar at that time, had rejected the Congress's demand to probe the assassination by the CBI."</span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;">According to the Yusuf Commission report, neither the state government nor Tripura Police was responsible for Bimal Sinha's killing. It said he was solely responsible for his and his brother's killing.</span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;">Reacting to the Congress's allegations, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) central committee member Bijan Dhar said: "Their allegations are wild and a complete lie. If they have any such evidence, why did they not submit the same before the judicial commission when it sought the views of all concerned during the probe?"</span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;">Challenging the Congress, Dhar and party central committee member Gautam Das said that if the Congress failed to prove its charges, its members must resign from the assembly.</span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans Condensed, sans-serif;">Courtesy: <a href="http://www.thestatesman.com/news/northeast/congress-calls-tripura-shutdown-seeks-cbi-probe-into-leader-s-killing/133305.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Statesman</a></span></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">30 March, 2016</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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The house had to be adjourned twice due to the uproar in the house.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The adjournment motion sought to discuss the judicial inquiry commission's report on the assassination of the former minister and his brother 18 years ago.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The report of the inquiry commission, headed by Justice (retd) M.A. Yusuf of the Calcutta High Court, submitted before the government in June 2000, was presented in the state assembly on March 23 following the Tripura High Court order.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"To hush up the real truth, the Left Front government has not cooperated with the inquiry commission. The state government, headed by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar that time, had rejected the Congress' demand to probe the assassination by the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation)," Barman told reporters after the adjournment of the house.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Yusuf Commission identified 27 accused relating to the killing, but none was punished so far," he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Surprisingly, the state government filed repeated petitions before the sessions court, the high court and the Supreme Court to let off three heinous criminals who were among the 27 accused. However, all the courts rejected the state government's appeal," he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Demanding a fresh inquiry into the former minister's killing, Barman accompanied by former opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath, state party president Birajit Sinha and other leaders alleged that Sinha was killed as he wanted to be the chief minister.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Referring to various comments of the commission, the Congress leader said if the CBI had probed the murder, many things would have been exposed against the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M ) and its leadership.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the report of the Yusuf Commission, neither the state government nor Tripura Police was responsible for Sinha's killing. He was solely responsible for his and his brother's killing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sinha and his brother were shot dead by proscribed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) on March 31, 1998, at Kamalpur in northern Tripura.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Commission in its findings said: "Minister (Sinha) used to instruct his security personnel to remain far away from him whenever he went to meet the collaborators of the militants. He never allowed his security and escort personnel to come nearer to him or to accompany him... this he did for the release of his brother Bikram Sinha from the clutches of the militants."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The slain minister's younger brother had been kidnapped by the NLFT weeks before the sensational killings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Yusuf Commission was appointed by the Left Front government in 1998 and submitted its report on January 31, 2000.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Following a writ petition filed by advocate Kalyani Roy, who heads the state Congress' women's wing, the Tripura High Court recently asked the state government to publish the report.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Courtesy: <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/bedlam-in-tripura-assembly-over-ex-minister-s-killing-116032800560_1.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Business Standard</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">March 28, 2016</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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But lately my interest on this country went to such an extent that I watched almost all You Tube videos for weeks without timely food and sleep! To my dismay (and I must accept) that my knowledge about the country was insufficient and bare; I was living in a fool’s dream.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Today after 69 years of its independence, many commentators and think tanks describe the country in our neighbourhood as a ‘failed state’, a ‘toxic jelly state’, and some even go further saying it as a ‘paranoid state’ suffering from paranoia! And not to forget the country is also termed as a ‘terrorist state’. &nbsp;The adjectives are given by Pakistani intelligentsia, media, foreign specialist on Southeast /sia, and our own journalist fraternity. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">As I have said, Pakistan is indeed very interesting. While I was engrossed watching videos after videos, I thought to write about Pakistan. But the question was: what to write? Since everything is available in the Internet. Any possible angle that I would try to give to Pakistan is available in the media. So I came with this topic: Lessons to be learned from Pakistan’s mistakes. Pakistan has done many experiments (insensible) without being wise and practical. So what are the lessons that we Indians must learn from the mistakes of Pakistan.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No1: Don’t manipulate history in school textbooks</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Pakistani establishment has been teaching distorted history to their children and it is still going on since the inception of the country. Take the instance, in their school textbooks it is written that Pakistan won the 1965 war and all the wars against India! Thing are worst, when in the 21<sup>st</sup>century, we hear Pakistanis are discussing (a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah views on Pakistan, (b) what is Pakistan --- secular, Islamist, a security state. The present generation still harbours anti-Hindu and anti-India sentiments. Even AQ Khan, who masterminded Pakistan nuclear bomb program carry anti-Hindu feelings.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Our take: We must have history that speaks the truth even if it hurts us. So that we can learn and understand better the world we are living today. However, any facts that go into the school textbooks that teach animosity towards religion, communities, languages, historical figures must be strongly objected. </div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No2: Disconnect State with religion</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Pakistan was the first nation in the world to be created based on Islam! It went further and in the 1970s, the Ahmaddiyas were constitutionally declared non-Muslims! Today the country is in crossroad and it is in the confused state where to go forward. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Our take: <strike>The very essence of India, its secular pillar must be strengthened. We the Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and others are one in the eyes of the nation India and we must uphold this uniqueness of India that is ‘unity in diversity’.</strike><br />09/12/2016: Unfortunately, we have our imported 'secularism'.&nbsp;</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No3: A terrorist is a terrorist.</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Pakistan describes people who take up guns by many names –jihadist (liberal jihadist/ Islamic jihadist), mujahidin, Pakistan Taliban, Afghan Taliban etc. who uses the terror tactic to further their ideological and political objective. There is an incident where a security guard kills a Pakistani Governor, and a section of people/party garland him for his act!</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Our take: Those who take up violence against the nation are terrorists and they should be dealt hard. </div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No4: Stop Vandalizing and Violence</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Many Pakistani parties with a drop of a pin call for bandhs, hartals and starts vandalizing shops and infrastructure. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Our take: At this front, we are in common with them. We must not choose or support our leaders who stop national highways, water supply and resort to violence. If it happens we are making our nation ‘Pakistan’. I don’t remember the name of the person who said Pakistan is not a nation; it is a state of mind! &nbsp;</div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No5: Identity crisis</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Pakistanis are suffering from deep identity crisis. The identity crisis is in many layers. They speak and write Urdu which is not the language of the land! Imagine a Bengali who is forced to speak Urdu. The result: emergence of Bangladesh as a new nation.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Out take: The Government of India must aggressively facilitate promotion and preservation of all Indian language and culture. So that everyone feels proud not only of his or her culture and language but to be a part of India we know. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No6: Mistakes, if done. Rectify it urgently</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Someone rightly said about the history of Pakistan. It is of BLUNDER-PLUNDER-SURRENDER. The country has made hell lot of mistakes since its inception. And each and every mistake is what they are reaping today. Be it their policy towards USA or it is towards India. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Out take: Though we have our own bunch of mistakes that we did in the process of nation building. And we have not resolved it till today. Kashmir is one. It is an integral part of India, a legal claim. But still so much ears-deafening noise on Kashmir. As a nation we must solve problems on urgent basis that got created in the due course of time. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No7: Wipe out corruption</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">The zenith of corruption: Osama Bin Laden was found in Pakistan! The institutions of any state – judiciary, police, army, and many – are corrupt in Pakistan. &nbsp;Corruption has become a social norm. <br /><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Our take: We must weed out that gives oxygen to the virus called ‘corruption’. Corruption must be tamed socially, technologically and other effective means. We are more or less in the same page. </div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No8: Be rational, pragmatic, scientific </h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Rationality of the people in Pakistan went bankrupt when the whole Pakistan – be it media, government, scientists – all went gaga over invention of a car kit through which water can be used to run it. Simply, running a car with water! It was highlighted by everybody even the scientific community took it seriously; imagine it became a topic in the cabinet meeting of the government.&nbsp; </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Our take: we have our own list of social practices and events that are irrational and unscientific. Witch hunting is one and there are many that we must get rid of at the earliest as a nation we progress.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No9: Embrace Soft Power</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Pakistan doesn’t have soft power to showcase in the world map, except International Terrorism (IT)! </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Our take: we must explore, experiment and exhibit to the whole world our soft powers. Except Bollywood, cricket, ITeS, yoga and spiritualism, we must have bouquet of soft powers in our arsenal that showcase India, a great nation. </div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No10: Invest on the people</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Pakistan doesn’t invest on the education of its people. The state of affair of their education system seemed quite immature from my perspective when a newly convert Muslim is allowed to held a talk in an educational institution with a well-known Pakistani scientist, Parvez Hoodbouy. The topic somehow I could digest, but how the ‘foreign entertainer’ was allowed to hold a discussion in the precinct of a university on science. It was something like discussion between a scientist and a magician on Newton’s gravity.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Our take: For any nation, people are both assets and liabilities. India must aspire to create robust educational infrastructure through which visionaries of tomorrow comes out. The government of India and our society must prepare men and women who are capable to take up the challenges of the future. </div></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Lesson No11: Choose leaders wisely</h2><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">In the history of Pakistan, there is not a single leader who had a vision for the country. Today they not only doubt their Army, but their so-called leaders. They have been facing scarcity of leaders who in their heart's core had a vision about their people.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Our take: Well, in our case. There is a mix; after all it is a big country. I would say, the quality of leaders definitely have come down. As a citizen, we must cast our vote wisely.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">If any of these mistakes are committed in India, we must get aware. At least, I would be aware.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides these, I found hard to digest many facts about Pakistan. I observed that it is a nation of conspiracy. They find conspiracy theories about everything under the sun. They cannot see things, as it is. ‘Sign of ultra intellect’ and no understanding. They think everybody is conspiring to destroy Islam, Muslims, Pakistan, and Pakistanis! A sure sign of paranoia.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Secondly, they feel our Indian Muslims brothers and sisters are in danger, they are being treated badly, and their faith is in danger in the world’s largest secular democratic country called India. This is something that brings my heart out of my mouth. In my existence on this earth, personally I never found that it is true. I pray, Pakistanis to forget about Indian Muslims. They are Indian first. Moreover, Indian Muslims are smarter and intelligent than their Pakistanis counterpart. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Thirdly, their national obsession about Kashmir; I find they are still clinging on the two-nation theory on Kashmir valley. It amuses me to see their psychological drama on Kashmir. I would advice, ‘forget Kashmir, come to reality’. Stop the psychological drama in your brain; it has become pathogenic.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many like this. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">To conclude, it is true that the world is eyeing on Pakistan with squeezed eyes. However, there are few conscientious, intelligent, and brave people in Pakistan who see the bigger and real picture of their country. They are very brave to say a spade a spade while living in a violent, Kalashnikov culture of Pakistan. Their commentary on their country’s state of affair is excellent, eye-opening and practical. One must watch Pervez Hoodbhoy, a soft-spoken Pakistani nuclear scientist. His commentary and understanding on various topics has impressed me a lot. His one of his discourse inspired me to write this article. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Hassan Nisar, a journalist and columnist is one another personality. He is a must-watch angry Amitabh Bachchan figure with a heavy voice, and no-non sense approach. One would equate him as a strict, aggressive teacher who cannot see or listen something that is wrong. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Tarek Fateh, a Pakistani-born Canadian citizen, a writer and a speaker. I found he is multifaceted, jovial, and serious, and at the same time gives impression of a person in next door. To describe him, he is a Hindu by soul, Muslim by birth, and liberal in outlook. He is anti-Pakistan!</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Najam Sethi, a journalist, is another person, I didn’t watch more about him. But he is one among those who puts forth the Pakistan’s history and current affairs accurately and objectively.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;">Today India is the youngest country. It means the onus is on the youngsters to lead the nation ahead with clarity of thoughts and broader perspective. At the end of this article, I am thinking we have many challenges before India. What today we see, is the result of our founding fathers’ vision. &nbsp;They thought about the nation above them, but what next. I don’t have any answer. However, here are three videos. 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The amazing story of the person who single handedly without any outward support created a forest doesn’t require anyone’s introduction, today.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The forest created by him is called today ‘Molai’ forest, named after his pet name. It is situated in Jorhat, Assam, India.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The whole day I spent reading and watching documentaries on Jadav Payeng. It began with a thought that got triggered with Delhi Government decision to follow even-and-odd formula for vehicular movement in the city. My thought on pollution led me to pour again extensively about Jadav Payeng.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Viewers can read about him here (that I found interesting): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadav_Payeng" target="_blank">Jadav Payeng in Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/general/the-man-who-created-a-forest" target="_blank">The Man who created a forest by Khaleej Times</a>, <a href="http://www.jadavpayeng.org/home" target="_blank">Jadav Payeng website</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">View documentaries and movies on him: <a href="https://youtu.be/HkZDSqyE1do" target="_blank">Forest Man by William D McMaster&nbsp;</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HkZDSqyE1do/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HkZDSqyE1do?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/7vPFF03JC20" target="_blank">The Forest Man Of India</a>&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7vPFF03JC20/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7vPFF03JC20?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After reading about his achievement from different sources: blogs, news website, movies, documentaries. Something was not settling in me. It was: How to describe Payeng, the person?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In one of his interview, he says, “I don't live in flat, I live in forest. Five of my bench mates in school have become Engineers and one has become Sales Tax Superintendent. They have already made money and living in flats but forest is my flat. I am the happiest person on this earth.”&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is Payeng who earns his livelihood by selling cow milk and sustaining his family. He lives in a hut near the forest. But he is happy and content leading a pleasant life. Looking around, I don’t find anyone who can remotely say, they are happy or living pleasantly. We have forgotten the ingredient called ‘happiness’ in our life. With all gadgets and comfort around us, the state of happiness is becoming a promise; the promise to be broken.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His achievement cannot be described in words, the more I think, the more meaning it brings forth. It is not merely planting trees for years after years. And one day it becomes a forest. No it is not like that. To grow a forest means to create an ecosystem and for this, inclusiveness is required with every component of flora and fauna. Beginning with trees, to microorganisms, to animals and birds to the creation of a nature’s ecosystem, everything must fall in place. And Jadav Payeng has done this single handedly. He is rightly termed as the ECO-SAVIOUR.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He gives me the impression more of a Karmic Yogi. He has been doing his work joyfully as if dancing through his work. He has always been involved himself in planting trees as if that is his LIFE. The description of him as the “Forest Man of India” doesn’t carry much essence to me but his involvement with his work is more meaningful. The mother Nature is not outward for Payeng. It is inclusive for him. He takes mother nature as an integral part of him. And this, he said in many interviews. In one interview, he said, ‘we are all animals; if there is any difference it is that we wear clothes’. His thoughts absorb me like teachings of a spiritual human being; who is teaching all of us to become ‘human’. As a Karmic Yogi, his activities are more in the process of liberation than entanglement.&nbsp;</div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Padma Shri Jadav Payeng must be honoured with the highest civilian award of the Republic of India, the Bharat Ratna. That would be my wish.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Molai+Forest/@26.849129,94.1430382,1369m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x13d16e57d482dbf5!6m1!1e1" target="_blank">Google Maps view of Molai Forest.</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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Also I didn’t go even to pay obeisance to nearby radha kund, though I was seeing from distance. Now I regret that moment, that I should have used the opportunity anyhow. So in Shri Radha Madhav temple I observed bishnupriya manipuri ladies doing services- like cutting vegetables, cleaning etc. I saw in altar, beautiful two Radha Madhav deity one big and one small in our bishnupriya Manipuri traditional dress (Radha rani was in polie), they were looking so beautiful, that I was just staring appreciating their beauty and by side was deity of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Their darshan gave some solace to my bad mood, although outwardly I was maintaining as if still in bad mood. One thing I observed that some parts of temple was broken, I am not able to recall the exact picture of temple now, but overall I felt it was needed renovation, the only BM temple in vrindavan that too in prime location in radha kund.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As I mentioned before that being in that place I didn’t even visit radha kund, it was my misfortune, that I came to know now after knowing so much glories of radha kund. Let me share some of these glories which may encourage us to also care for Sri radha madhav jew temple which is located in vicinity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Srila Rupa Goswami (one of the chief disciple of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) in his Updeshamrit tells why Radha kunda is great. It is mentioned in 9th verse of Updeshamrit “<i>The holy place known as Mathurā is spiritually superior to Vaikuṇṭha, the transcendental world, because the Lord appeared there. Superior to Mathurā-purī is the transcendental forest of Vṛndāvana because of Kṛṣṇa’s rāsa-līlā pastimes. And superior to the forest of Vṛndāvana is Govardhana Hill, for it was raised by the divine hand of Śrī Kṛṣṇa and was the site of His various loving pastimes. And, above all, the superexcellent Śrī Rādhā-kuṇḍa stands supreme, for it is overﬂooded with the ambrosial nectarean prema of the Lord of Gokula, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Where, then, is that intelligent Person who is unwilling to serve this divine Rādhā-kuṇḍa, which is situated at the foot of Govardhana Hill?</i>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Radha-kuṇḍa, at the foot of Govardhana, is superior to all because it is there that love of Kṛṣṇa overﬂows. In Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya-līlā) it is stated that when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ﬁrst visited the area of Vraja-bhumi, He could not at ﬁrst ﬁnd the location of Radha-kuṇḍa. Finally He found the holy spot, and there was a small pond there. He took His bath in that small pond. Later the pond was excavated by Lord Caitanya’s devotees, headed ﬁrst by the Six Gosvamis, such as Rupa and Raghunatha dasa. Presently there is a large lake known as Radha-kuṇḍa there. Who, then, would give up Radha-kuṇḍa and try to reside elsewhere? No person with transcendental intelligence would do so. The importance of Radha-kuṇḍa, however, cannot be realized by other Vaiṣṇava sampradāyas, nor can persons uninterested in the devotional service of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu understand the spiritual importance and divine nature of Radha-kuṇḍa. Thus Radha-kuṇḍa is mainly worshiped by the Gauḍiya Vaiṣṇavas, the followers of Lord Sri Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahaprabhu.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the next 11th verse it is mentioned “<i>Of the many objects of favored delight and of all the lovable damsels of Vraja-bhūmi, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is certainly the most treasured object of Kṛṣṇa’s love. And, in every respect, Her divine kuṇḍa is described by great sages as similarly dear to Him. Undoubtedly Rādhā-kuṇḍa is very rarely attained even by the great devotees; therefore it is even more difﬁcult for ordinary devotees to attain. If one simply bathes once within those holy waters, one’s pure love of Kṛṣṇa is fully aroused.</i>”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So fortunate we are that we have the opportunity to be near to radha kund and those devotees who stay there and perform devotional service. If Radha Madhav temple get renovated and by contribution if it has even moderate facility for the pilgrims, the contributors get benefitted and the pilgrims get benefitted by krsna bhakti, because of its being located in the most most most supreme location within vrindavan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Upadesamrta book (in English nectar of Instruction) one of the best literary works by Srila Rupa Goswami, giving guidance to those who wants to advance in krsna bhakti. I recommend to read this book, very small containing only 11 verses. And support Shri Radha Madhav temple, so that we as community can take advantage of being located in radha kund.&nbsp;</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">---------------------
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